Grype
A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems
**A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems.** The project is written primarily in Go, distributed under the Apache License 2.0 license, first published in 2020. It has gained significant community traction with 12,425 stars and 812 forks on GitHub. Key topics include: container-image, containers, cyclonedx, docker, go.
Grype
A vulnerability scanner for container images and filesystems.
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Features
- Scan container images, filesystems, and SBOMs for known vulnerabilities (see the docs for a full list of supported scan targets)
- Supports major OS package ecosystems (Alpine, Debian, Ubuntu, RHEL, Oracle Linux, Amazon Linux, and more)
- Supports language-specific packages (Ruby, Java, JavaScript, Python, .NET, Go, PHP, Rust, and more)
- Supports Docker, OCI, and Singularity image formats
- Threat & risk prioritization with EPSS, KEV, and risk scoring (see interpreting the results docs)
- OpenVEX support for filtering and augmenting scan results
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New to Grype? Check out the Getting Started guide for a walkthrough!
Installation
The quickest way to get up and going:
bashcurl -sSfL https://get.anchore.io/grype | sudo sh -s -- -b /usr/local/bin
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See Installation docs for more ways to get Grype, including Homebrew, Docker, Chocolatey, MacPorts, and more!
The basics
Scan a container image or directory for vulnerabilities:
bash# container image grype alpine:latest # directory grype ./my-project
Scan an SBOM for even faster vulnerability detection:
bash# scan a Syft SBOM grype sbom:./sbom.json # pipe an SBOM into Grype cat ./sbom.json | grype
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Check out the Getting Started guide to explore all of the capabilities and features.Want to know all of the ins-and-outs of Grype? Check out the CLI docs and configuration docs.
Contributing
We encourage users to help make these tools better by submitting issues when you find a bug or want a new feature.
Check out our contributing overview and developer-specific documentation if you are interested in providing code contributions.
For commercial support options with Syft or Grype, please contact Anchore.
Come talk to us!
The Grype Team holds regular community meetings online. All are welcome to join to bring topics for discussion.
- Check the calendar for the next meeting date.
- Add items to the agenda (join this group for write access to the agenda)
- See you there!
Contributors
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